Places that i have stayed before part 2

Regensburg, Germany.

I was there for 3 months, experienced Winter and Spring. I experienced the coldest Winter in my life, it was -16 deg C. I swear you can't walk on the street more than 15 minutes. To me, it's fun! LOL! I like to see snow....falling from the sky.But walking in the snow can be awful.

This place is an old town, a district in Bavaria, famous with Alps and food.The Bavarian Alps define the border with Austria, and within the range is the highest peak in Germany,the Zugspitze.

The people...Generally Germans are quite self-righteous,they do not speak other languages and not easy to mix with. Probably they do not speak well in Engish.Make sure you know some key German words or equipped with a pocket dictionary, as the public places are not English friendly :(

Bavarians tend to place a great value on food and drink.
I miss the food here a lot....nd of course the beers!

Schwein braten-the most common dish in upper Bavaria. Pork served in slices with gravy, accompanied by Knödel (Smashed potato ball)

Schweinshaxe Grilled pork joint often served as half with Knödel and sauerkraut, best goes together with weissbeer!!!!

Nürnberger Bratwurst mit Sauerkraut- Smallest among all sausages in Bavaria, this one become famous all over Germany.Fried sausages served with sauerkraut is a speciality from Nürnberg


The standard serving for a beer is 0,5l " eine Halbe" beer is traditionally served by the litre in Germany

Dunkles (meaning "dark") that has a stronger taste because it is brewed with more malt. This one beats all kind of beers from other country .....taste so smooth and a bit sweet.

Weißbier - literally meaning "white beer" - is made of barley and wheat.It tastes more sour than Helles

Helles - which means "pale" .It is a type of lager beer, similar to the pilsener, but contains less hop and tastes sweeter.

All about food, right? Ya,other than the township, all i miss is the food :)








Poo Daddy having his 1 meter long sausage in the mini October fest



Me on the peak of Zugspitze



Poo Daddy having his Schweinshaxe, yummy!



1 litle beer....



Spring ...

busy weekend

Last weekend, brothers and i celebrated a belated Father's day lunch for our father. He suggested that we go for Sitiawan seafood, so being good daughter and sons, we purposely drove down to Sitiawan to have seafood lunch...We did not aware it is located o far, we thought it is only about 45 minutes drive from Ipoh town...After the lunch,my brother said...went to a pirate ship, should just had lunch nearby ..LOL!
But, can really see my father is happy to see us all attended to the lunch ....which already worth the effort...:)


It was a busy home trip, after had lunch with my own family, then next was be dinner with my MIL and BIL, we went to have vegetarian sushi, My BIL misses the food here after being months in China.Frankly, i like the food here too...especially the sushi.

We went to Tesco to have little shop , reached home about 10.30pm, i suppose to meet up with my best friend who so happened to return home at the same time.But she had plan, so we postponed to Sunday.

All i can say is a tiring Saturday, despite of the traveling and being out the whole day, i need to take care of little Bao , who ran up and down in the car,did not give me a chance to have peaceful lunch and dinner....Days of battle on the table just begins, he just wants to be like us, using spoon and fork on the dining place, taking food that meant for adult, rejecting his own baby food... His stubborn character is more and more surface up now, little Poo very soon becomes a little monster in my life :(

Sunday began with a brunch,finally met up with my best friend at her house, i did not bring little Bao (my MIL helped me to take care of my him)...We even went to visited another good friend, all 3 of us were very good friends during school day. Time flies, it almost 15 years we graduated from school,only meeting once or twice a year during big day.

Though the last weekend was so packed, but i really enjoyed it...precious moments with families and friends.

My Holidays - Part 3(Zhuhai and Macau)

We took a ferry trip from Shenzen -Shekou (蛇口）to Zhuhai (珠海). The entire trip is about 1 hour, transportation in China is quite expensive, costs us RMB95 for single trip, imagine it's only 1 hour journey. I think we can get cheaper price in Malaysia.

Environment in Zhuhai is more organized and clean i would say, while waiting my friend to meet up, we had a little shopping at Gongbei shopping mall (拱北地下商場）, this is the most happening place in Zhuhai, and it's the nearest link to Macau, both places are separated by few minutes walk crossing the Barrier Gate .

My friend took us to a Chinese Restaurant to have Dim Sum for light lunch at Gongbei, we had great roasted pigeon (乳鴿), and it's cheaper compare to Hong Kong. There is not much activity can be done than shoppping in Zhuhai, so we shopped whole day, hee.... hubby dared not complain...

The next morning, we said goodbye to Zhuhai after breakfast , it's only 10 mins journey to Macau from my friend's house.We took a ferry ride Wanzai (Zhuhai) to Macau by Yuet Tung Shipping via Macau Inner Harbour Terminal. Arrived about 10am at Macau, and the streets are still quiet.

Macau is a fascinating place to just walk around as the place is packed with churches, temples, fortresses and other old buildings bearing an interesting mix of Portuguese and Chinese characteristics. You can easily access to Ruins of St. Paul's, St. Dominic's Church
along Rua de São Paulo （新馬路）. oh Ya, there are still widely use Portuguese language in Macau.

Ruins of St. Paul's

St. Dominic's Church

Of course we did not miss the theme of Macao - Casino Lisboa. How to descibe this place? I would say it is stood up on it's own in the city.Too bad we missed the night scene, but i'm sure i'm going to make another trip to Macau, to visit Vanetian City. :) It is too rush with this half day tour in Macau, so we did not explore into Taipa Island....

There are variety of games , including baccarat, blackjack, roulette, boule, "big and small", hundreds of the most glittering array of slot machines anywhere, I also see game tables called " fish, prawn ,crab", but do not know how to play this.We did not try our luck of fortune, maybe next time...

Oh Ya, if you are backpackers, a tip for you ....You may deposit your luggage at lower ground floor of Grand Lisboa Casino, it provides 24 hours luggage deposit service to guests.

Grand Lisboa Casino

About food, so shame to tell that we did not really try the famous food in Macau, we were too full after the Dim Sum breakfast at Zhuhai. Along the way from Rua de São Paulo 新馬路 to Ruins of St. Paul's, there are a lot of food stalls selling Pork Chop bun, famous Portuguese specialty "Pastéis de Nata", little egg tarts, almond cookies...and dried meat. You will have a chance to taste free food from shop to shop. The shopkeepers all stand in front of the shop, one hand holding a pair of scissors, the other hand holding a piece of dried meat, offering free testing to all the tourists passing by. If you want a free lunch to fill up your stomach, this really do... :)

We had a very light lunch in a fastfood restaurant, the pork chop bun tasted really bad...I can't recall the name of the restaurant, but is located is a 1 level up on the ground shops. Not much comment i can give on food, as we did not have much.

Take a ferry trip from Macau Inner Harbour Terminal to Shekou (蛇口）before nightfall, reached home about 9 something.We need to rest early as Poo Daddy need to work on the next day, and i have my own explore in Shenzen, yeah!

To be continued.....

My Holidays - Part 1(LCCT)

I had my holidays during the company shut down period, started from 25th to 4th Jan, more than 10 days.Since having so many days off, i made a trip to China to visit Poo daddy, via Air Asia.
First time stepped on LCCT, and i was stunned with this low cost terminal. Well, no other words describe the best than "Low cost". It is crowded...dimmed...noisy and hot, I wondered if the air-con was funtioning.It looks more like a bus station than air plane terminal, maybe my expectation is rather high for "airport".
They do not separated the gates. When there is announcement for boarding, flight delays, calling for passengers.....etc, the whole floor can hear....Imagine if there are 2 announcements done simultaneously...u will never hear correctly and it's so annoying when the anouncement is made.
The is no information panel for passengers to check if the flight is on time...boarding gate...or delay. You can only see the destination info on the LCD in front of the gate, and this could be wrong if there are changes..Like my case, they have changed gate from P14 to P10, but never showed on the LCD in front of the gate.
I hate the chairs that provided are not comfortable, the back to back arrangement are too close, i don't like to have such close contact.There are rubbish everywhere under the chair. Thanks to those uncivilized people, i do not understand, there are so many dustbins provided, can't they just walk a few steps to throw the rubbish?
There are so limited shops, if i'm not wrong, there are only 2 shops plus one coffee station.i almost fainted when i saw there are only few tables avaible in the coffee station, and it's all occupied, where the hell i can go to spend my 3 hours transit time?if i were to know this i would have to bring a book to read....
At the end, i sat on the chair in front of the gate looking at people passing by for 3 hours...

Ok, boarding time annoucement made.....everyone rushed to the door. Gosh, those Chinese people from China.....pushed....squeezed .... in order to get to the front. I really want to say !@#!@#...

I really really hope that Air Asia can have seating arrangement according to ticket number instead of free seating. Everyone will be diciplined and not juggling to make sure they can have the best seat that they want. I read from the Air Asia Jan magazine taht they will provide service to pre-select seat. I think this is a very good news for frequent flyers.

My journey started with an awful experience at LCCT.......


To be continued.....

Team Building 08

This is a very back dated posting.

My company organized team building every quarterly, but most of the time is only half day event. This quarter was good, we have 2 days 1 night stay at Pangkor Island, guess boss wanted to reward us for 1 year hardwork contributed to the division.

This was first group trip that i had since graduated from school, felt like going back to school. LOL!

Since it was only one night , i let Gary stay in Baby sitter house. She is really helpful and happy to help me. At first i worry Gary will give troublesome to her, but luckily Gary behaved as a good boy. Relief~~~

The whole group of nearly 70 peoples headed to Pulau Pangkor on 27th Nov (See, it was so backdated :P ), we travelled in a bus, looked ok too. We arrived at Lumut Jetty about 12pm, the weather was good, windy and not too hot. It's about 40 mins ferry ride from Lumut to Pangkor Island, i hide on the deck all the way from Lumut to Pangkor.I had very bad experience in my last visit from England to Paris via Dover, it brings me dilemma on nausea ever since then.

It's much better to catch the sea breeze in open air.....

Don't we look like those 18-22 young girls? :)

Pangkor Island still look as old Pangkor Island, there is not much development i can see...compared to 10 years ago.

I was surprized that the Hotel that we stayed has changed to a Malay management group, and my comments are-"Do not expect more",as long as the room and environment look clean and hygine.

Telematch games started at the seaside, it's only 3 minutes walk from the hotel after we had lunch . I bet there are not many people come here for team buiding , as the instructor was lousy and the whole arrangement was bad.Well, despite of these, we had fun too!

But the best part was the cycling tour that we had after the telematch games....We rented bicycles from stalls by the road side, you easily can get one..there are plenty. But just a 2 cents opinion from me, please check properly and choose the new bike... most of the bikes are rotten.

Pangkor island is having a lot of hill side and the road are winding and steep, it is a very tough exercise to have a bike tour go around island. If i remember correctly the whole round island trip is taking like 3-4 hours. Due to lack of time, we had only 1.5 hours ride...and you know what 1.5 hours for 1km distance, will it be to slow....or are we too old?

The dinner come with Karaoke session, but a few of us "ponteng" from the event. We sneaked out to the beach, we equiped ourselves with red wine, peanuts and snacks...We talked about office gossips, futures...a lot of laughters.





P/S: to Poo Daddy, the pondok still there, next time will not be only 2 of us but add one more member to be there- little Gary!

Baby Photo shootings

Last Sunday, A friend of mine helped to take some family and baby photos.He suggested we go to Botanical Garden, we were there early at 9am....this was my 1st time to be at Botanical since married...and first family trip to be there.


To my surprice, Penang people are so healthy......a lot ppl jogging, morning walk.....at the park.


We are lucky too to see a few monkeys near the entrance, according to my friend, it's getting harder to see monkeys in Botanical Garden nowadays.



The weather was good on last Sunday, it was raining like dog shit for the past one week, as normally do during 9 emperors celebration. We are happy to see the sun shine again on that day morning.

One of my favourites, "Father and son"

Gary was quite cooperative that day and we able to snap some best shot for him...

Till we put a cap on his head.....he showed black black face and tried to pull down the cap.

So happy when daddy let him climbed on the trunk, he can be like the monkeys too..just can't swing swing...far like them. :)

Eeee..both mame and daddy's feet so dirty :P

It was fun ...and many thanks to Boay .....we like the photos very much and this marked a very sweet memory for Gary.

1 day Cameron Trip

Hubby was back for home trip last week, it was a nice ...warm holidays that we have had.

We went to Cameron Highlands on last Sunday, this was planned for months to bring Gary to have some breathtaking scenery and cooling weather. It could be due to Muslim fasting month, the crowd that we normally see was not there....well, i would rather said..it's quiet.....not many stalls are opened.

Gary slept all the way from Ipoh to Cameron Highlands, good boy.....like his father..sleep like a pig once goes into car :) I guess he is still too early to notice the environament..green scenery difference compared to cities, so overall it's mame and MIL were happy to see..flowers.....farms.

Naughty Bao2 caried by daddy on the way to the car after visiting Strawberry farm.

Strawberries are on cheap sales on that day!RM10 for 2 big boxes , all freshly picked!

Wearing new cap that i bought from Germany, erm..having his favourite Chut chut....

Before heading back to Ipoh, we dropped by my cousins farm....we were at the right time to be there coz harvesting season for Chrysanthemums and "Choi sam", we took some back...it was so nice and fresh.